Button pencil-holder.



E. D. GONKLIN. BUTTON PENCIL HOLDER. APPLIGATIOK rum) MAY 11, 1907.

Patented pct. 20, 1908.

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EDWARD D. OONKLIN, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BUTTON PENCIL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

Application filed May 17, 1907. Serial No. 374,185.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD D. GONKLIN, of Newark, in the county of Essex, in the State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button Pencil- Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in button pencil holders in which a sheet metal shell, constituting a part of the button, is formed with a clasp adapted to be passed through a button hole or clasped upon the lapel or other part of a coat or other garment, the clasp being formed with friction clamps constituting a pencil holderj My object is to provide a simple and cheaply manufactured button or badge adapted to be easily attached to or detached from a coat, vest or other garment and provided with a pencil clasp into which a pencil or similar article may be readily inserted and retained by friction so as to be capable of being withdrawn when desired for use.

Other objects relating to the specific parts of the button will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a side elevation of my improved button pencil holder as operatively attached in the button hole of a garment. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged sectional views taken respectively on lines 3-3, and 4-4, Fig. 2.

In carrying out the objects stated, the marginal edge of a sheet metal shell 1- is bent laterally to form a flaring annular flange --2 upon which is fitted .a sheet metal disk -3 having an inturned flange -A and a covering 5- of celluloid or other pyroxylene material adapted to bear printed or other advertising matter or such surface may be left entirely plain, if desired.

The marginal edges of the covering 5- are crimped around the inner edge of the flange l and is held in place between said flange and the flange 2 of the shell --1.

A tongue -6 is cut and partially detached from the central portion or back of the sheet metal shell 1leaving one of its ends as -7 integral with and offset beyond the plane of the central portion of the shell 1 so as to leave the opposite end unattached and adapted to be sprung inwardly and outwardly and adapted to be inserted through a button hole and clasped upon the adjacent portion of the garment or it may be slipped over and clasped upon any other part of the garment and held by its own spring tension. By the manner of constructing the tongue as stated it provides the tongue with a rearwardly extending arm and a transversely extending arm.

The opposite edges of the central portion of the tongue are formed with lateral offset portions constituting integral pencil clasps or gripping arms -8 which are also cut from the main body or central portion of the shell 1- and are usually curved toward each other at the back of the tongue -6- to form an open loop of slightly less diameter than that of an ordinary pencil so that when the latter is inserted into the loop it will be retained by friction by the arms 8.

The transversely extending arm of the tongue is slitted whereby a portion of each of the gripping arms is formed from a part of the transversely extending arm of the tongue, or, in other words, the slitted portions of the transversely extending arm form continuations of the offset portions.

The greater portion of the tongue 6- to which the arms -8- are attached is tensioned so as to lie in a plane a short distance from the back of the shell lto permit the insertion of the garment between said tongue and back of the shell, said tongue, which has more or less elasticity or spring action being tensioned to automatically clamp the garment between itself and the back of the shell to frictionally hold the button upon the garment and in order to further retain the button against accidental displacement from said garment, the back of the shell 1 is provided with one or more spurs 9- which are formed by turning outwardly one or more of the corners formed by cutting or stamping the tongue cut away to provide a transversely extending tongue having lateral off-set portions, said lateral ofl-set portions bent to provide a pair of pencil gripping arms extending outardly from said tongue.

2. A button pencil fastener comprising a metallic shell having a portion of its back cut away to provide an angle-shaped tongue embodying a rearwardly and a transversely extending arm, said transversely extending arm of greater length than said rearwardly extending arm and provided with lateral offsets, said off-sets bent to provide pencil gripping arms extending outwardly from said transversely extending arm.

3. A button pencil fastener comprising a metallic shell having a portion of its back cut away to provide a transversely extending tongue having lateral off-set portions bent to provide pencil gripping arms extending outwardly from said tongue, said tongue formed with a plurality of transverse slits whereby a portion of said arms is formedfrom the body portion of the tongue.

41:- A button pencil fastener comprising a metallic shell having a portion of its back cut away to provide a transversely extending tongue having lateral off-set portions bent to provide pencil. gripping arms extending outwardly from said tongue, said tongue formed with a plurality of transverse slits whereby a portion of said arms is formed from the body portion of the tongue, said transversely extending arm providedwith a plurality of slits whereby a portion of each of said gripping arms is formed from a part of said transversely extending arm;

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of May 1907.

EDXVARD D. CONKLIN.

Witnesses:

W. D.- LowEREE, FRED. F. KLEBoLD. 

